Senior Software Engineer

Robinhood

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$196,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
94 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $186k
This role $213k
$136k most similar roles pay here $240k

This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $186k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Robinhood

Robinhood is a financial technology company offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, aimed at democratizing access to financial markets. Industry: Financial Technology & Investment App

Robinhood currently has 35 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $196,000–$230,000 across 35 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, Robinhood Command Center, you will join a newly formed reliability team serving as the front line for detecting, coordinating, and mitigating production incidents across the organization. You will lead incident mitigation efforts by coordinating service owners, facilitating time-sensitive decisions like rollbacks and traffic shifts, while developing tools to improve MTTD and MTTR metrics. Your responsibilities include defining global dashboards for critical user journeys, designing failure mitigation strategies to avoid full-region failovers, and establishing post-incident governance standards. You will utilize expertise in distributed systems, fault-tolerant architecture design, and multi-region infrastructure. The role requires proficiency with modern observability stacks including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. You will solve complex reliability problems by building frameworks for monitoring and alerting across hundreds of services to ensure high availability and minimize customer impact during active incidents.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $224000 from 203 postings across 41 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead incident mitigation efforts by coordinating service owners and facilitating time-sensitive technical decisions during active incidents.
  • Develop and maintain incident management processes to ensure timely resolution and minimize customer impact.
  • Define and maintain global dashboards and alerts tied to critical user journeys and business-impact metrics.
  • Build and evolve incident response tooling, including education programs and tracking of MTTD/MTTR improvements.
  • Drive post-incident governance by defining standards for postmortems and ensuring durable reliability improvements.
  • Design and implement failure mitigation strategies to prevent full-region or full-datacenter failovers.
  • Create frameworks to improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across hundreds of services and systems.
  • Provide executive-level reporting on service quality and reliability to inform business decisions.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 5+ years of software engineering experience including significant experience operating production systems.
  • Must have 2+ years of experience in reliability engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or production operations.
  • Requires hands-on experience serving in incident leadership roles such as incident commander or primary oncall.
  • Must possess deep knowledge of systems reliability, observability frameworks, and fault-tolerant architecture design.
  • Experience with multi-region or multi-cluster architectures, capacity planning, and failover strategies is required.
  • Familiarity with modern observability stacks including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana is required.
  • Must demonstrate the ability to drive measurable improvements in MTTD, MTTR, availability, or customer impact.
  • Requires strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills during high-severity incidents.

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